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Psh. Amateurs. http://i.minus.com/ibkZoWW040Kk8K.gif

It goes without saying that Navarro is a significant upgrade over what we had last season. But what do you think of him so far, especially with the alternatives on the 40-man roster? Do you think he's worth the money? Should he even be the 1st catcher? Split duties? I think the general consensus when we signed him was "meh", and when he had a good start to the season at the plate and calling the game, people felt he was a steal. But he has cooled down, while showing a pretty bad defensive game. Game calling, as shown with the extended stretch of outings with sub 6-inning starts, has been called into question.

day off, Gibbers said

If you want to get into advanced statistical metrics, I normally would recommend fangraphs.com, but it's not exactly user/noob friendly. Your best bet is to ask those questions here, although it's very likely you would get some biased responses here (this site heavily favors advanced metric baseball as opposed to fanboy/casual baseball) If you want to get into general baseball info, then I suggest you visit the trifecta of sports websites si.com/mlb espn.com/mlb foxsports.com/mlb http://www.nbcsports.com/mlb is good too In the front pages of these websites you will always see the typical day-to-day stuff, such as boxscores, but you will always see a lot of nice featurettes about the ins and outs and the whos who in baseball. I also strongly suggest you sign up on twitter and follow the esteemed reporters in the baseball reporting industry. Such notable individuals include Ken Rosenthal, Jon Morosi and Buster Olney. (BTW I do not suggest you sign up to those pay-wall sites, like ESPN insider) Also I suggest bookmarking this subreddit as it has a lot of interesting tidbits from around baseball: http://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/ edit: Oh and welcome to the community. Some people here are very passionate about their club which sometimes leads to quite negative interaction. Just suck it up and move on

Stroman pls

But let's conveniently ignore stud and HOF Pujols >_>

AL EAST BY THE NUMBERS: http://baseballbabble.com/balance-al-east/

semi relevant: http://i.imgur.com/IinEjBe.gif

I must've derped, cause I never knew he through a change-up THAT good. We've always heard he had a great FB/Slider combo. But man that is one nasty change-up.

Russ Adams...that's a name I haven't seen in awhile. Reminds me of Hill, wonder what he's up to.. Doing OK it seems

What pitch is this? Either is has too much break to be a slider or that's the nastiest slider since Lidge http://gamereax.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/StromanSlider.gif

they're gonna hit Bautista. Didn't need to go to 3rd, Melky

Well his personal pet project, Goins, failed miserably...

Gregor Chisholm ‏@gregorMLB 4m Everybody relax, Aaron Sanchez isn't hurt. He was removed from today's game because he threw a lot of pitches in the third inning. #BlueJays

Yeah but he is not 100%. Why risk making the injury worse and slowly the healing process. He could have had a double yesterday but he settled for a single. How many times is that going to come up before he is fully healed? It doesn't hurt to put him on the DL.

I don't understand how this team with good conscience won't put Navarro on the DL. The guy is a defensive liability, he is hurt right now, and any offensive output you get from him is currently being overshadowed by the other two catchers. It doesn't hurt to put him on the DL.

Samardzija drama http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/08/grown-man-jeff-samardzija-doesnt-want-the-cubs-front-office-involved-in-his-pitch-counts/related/

Pretty good article about the gamemanship behind the Jose Abreu showcases. TLDR: Even though he does have average bat speed, teams overstated it to create doubt among the scouting community to help depress his price/limit competing teams. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20140507/jose-abreu-cuba-showcase-chicago-white-sox/

Clington won, so it's the biggest choke job in the history of sports

I can't watch this too embarassing

He spotted his fastball well there. Good confidence booster

It has to be this. He needs rest.

jesus. Just forfeit...

This is cringe worthy.

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